The first year goes by in a blur of photos nobody sorts. A comic sorts it: an issue a month, the baby drawn from your photos in a soft look, the dog and the grandparents in the cast, and the small firsts kept the way they happened.
Write who's in the house and what the year will be: the baby, the parents, the dog who was here first. Choose Everyone as the rating on the first step.
Storybook Gouache for soft painted pages, Paper Cut-Out for the nursery wall, Woodland Fable in pen and watercolour. Every panel of the year keeps it.
Add a photo of the baby to their model sheet — and of the rest of the house, with everyone's permission — and each is drawn in the look from it.
Set the schedule to once a month. Put the month's firsts in the comic desk's ideas box, read the script, and download each finished issue to send round the family.
Press start and the premise lands in the box of a new comic with its look already picked. Change every word, or the look, before anything is drawn.
A newborn arrives in a tiny flat already run by an elderly greyhound, and every month the two of them work out one more rule of the house — who owns the sofa, who gets the sunny patch, who cries first.
In the Storybook Gouache look
Start with this ideaTwo first-time parents keep a log of everything the baby does for the first time, and every month the baby does something nobody wrote down a rule for.
In the Paper Cut-Out look
Start with this ideaOr in any of the twenty-eight. A comic picks one look on its second step, and every panel of every issue keeps it.
Yes, when they're yours to use — each photo asks you to confirm that. The model sheet is drawn from it in your look, and every panel of the baby from the sheet.
No. Every comic keeps its own schedule, and you can change it any time. An idea you place on a date is written on its day, so a quiet month can wait.
Something happened. The 3 a.m. feed, the first laugh, the war with the car seat. Drop the small things in the ideas box and the writer makes a month of them.